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Lubitsch in Berlin
(1919-1921)

Contents: The Doll (1919), I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919), The Oyster Princess (1919), Anna Boleyn (1920), Sumurun (1920), The Wildcat (1921) and Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006).

These boxsets, one from the USA and one from the United Kingdom, contain six Ernst Lubitsch silent films produced in Germany.

Kino International
2007 DVD edition

Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921), black & white, color-toned black & white, and color and black & white, 581 minutes total, not rated,
including I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919), black & white, 45 minutes, not rated, The Doll (1919), color-toned black & white, 64 minutes, not rated, The Oyster Princess (1919), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, Anna Boleyn (1920), color-toned black & white, 118 minutes, not rated, Sumurun (1920), color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes, not rated, The Wildcat (1921), black & white, 82 minutes, not rated, and Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006), color and color-toned black & white, 109 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Five single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; five standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $29.95.
Release date: 4 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This six-film DVD boxset has been mastered from the 35mm restoration prints prepared by the F.W. Murnau Foundation. The source prints utilized for the video transfers range from very-good to excellent.

For reviews of the individual films, see our pages: I Don’t Want to Be a Man on home video, The Doll on home video, The Oyster Princess on home video, Anna Boleyn on home video, Sumurun on home video, and The Wildcat on home video, plus Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin on home video.

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Eureka Entertainment
2010 DVD edition

Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921), black & white, color-toned black & white, and color and black & white, 581 minutes total, BBFC Classification PG,
including I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919), black & white, 45 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Doll (1919), color-toned black & white, 64 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Oyster Princess (1919), black & white, 60 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, Anna Boleyn (1920), color-toned black & white, 118 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, Sumurun (1920), color-tinted black & white, 103 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, The Wildcat (1921), black & white, 82 minutes, BBFC Classification PG, and Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006), color and color-toned black & white, 109 minutes, BBFC Classification PG.

Eureka Entertainment, unknown catalog number (MoC94-99), unknown UPC number.
Six single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, German? language intertitles, English? language subtitles, chapter stops; six slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; £49.99.
Release date: 25 January 2010.
Country of origin: England

This six-film DVD boxet has been mastered from the same 35mm restoration prints prepared by the F.W. Murnau Foundation as for the 2007 Kino International boxset edition noted above.